Noun
The sun is shining and there's not a cloud in the sky.
flying high above the clouds
It stopped raining and the sun poked through the clouds.
a cloud of cigarette smoke
The team has been under a cloud since its members were caught cheating.
There's a cloud of controversy hanging over the election. Verb
greed clouding the minds of men
These new ideas only cloud the issue further.
The final years of her life were clouded by illness. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
However, a cloud of uncertainty continues to hang over the organization.—C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2023 This luxurious-feeling topper features layers of cooling bamboo fabric, memory foam, down alternative filling, and more to make your mattress feel as soft as a cloud.—Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023 Its second season began recently in Mexico under the same noxious cloud of Norman’s hyperbole.—Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023 Her Instagram is a cotton candy-pink cloud of ruffles, corsets, and marabou, only slightly twisted by the two snakebite piercings below her lower lip.—Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023 While the fire has been largely put out, a thick cloud of smoke and methane gas continues to cover the area, reducing visibility and the city’s air quality, while emitting a lingering, pungent odor.—Rhea Mogul, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023 Ellie, crazed and exhausted, emerges into the cold air in a cloud of smoke.—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023 The contractual stalemate between Ngannou and the U.F.C., which most fans hoped would be resolved, is set to hang over the heavyweight division like a dark cloud.—Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023 Video footage from the scene showed thousands of protesters dispersing from the square in all directions amidst a cloud of tear gas smoke.—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2023
Verb
Jackson died in 2009 at the age of 50 and always maintained his innocence, but the claims continue to cloud his legacy.—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023 All four of those top receivers are expected to return in 2023, which continued to cloud Harrell’s path to playing time.—Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 14 Jan. 2023 But with uncertainty continuing to cloud the global economy, oil markets could be in for a wild 2023 as well.—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022 Skies began to cloud up again by late afternoon and evening.—Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2022 However, a looming shortage of analog chips threatens to cloud the outlook.—Shiho Takezawa, Bloomberg.com, 10 Feb. 2022 Behavioral and infrastructural factors could cloud the forecast as well.—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2022 That may cloud any attempt to discern whether the studies support or challenge the idea that beta amyloid directly harms neurons, the dominant but increasingly challenged hypothesis about what causes Alzheimer’s disease.—Byjohn Travis, science.org, 14 Nov. 2022 The hacks exploit a flaw in ESXi, a hypervisor VMware sells to cloud hosts and other large-scale enterprises to consolidate their hardware resources.—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2023 See More
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, rock, cloud, from Old English clūd; perhaps akin to Greek gloutos buttock
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